The true force behind Hydra's workings is revealed to be the Red Skull. While gloating to the Kingpin, Captain America, and the Falcon, the Red Skull reveals that there is a fifth sleeper about to bring devastation down upon Las Vegas.

RikerDonegalNovember 27, 2016After a long opening speech from the villain, this one is fast and furious as Cap and various other characters try to stop a giant robot from destroying Las Vegas!
It's all a bit silly. Sharon, who nearly died 2 issues back is suddenly completely fine again. After what? An hour in hospital? And story elements from earlier issues - like the kidnapping of a millionaire - are written off without actually got nag anywhere or paying off.
This story arc feels like it was being made up as it went along.
4/10

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Police spokesma said an inquest docket had been opened.

Don't get me wrong, I hate Nazism as much as anybody, but having "Nazism" be the power behind Hydra just doesn't make grammatical or narrative sense. I think they just looked at the issue # and said, "hmmmm, been a while since we've seen Red Skull, time to bring him back, work him in, Roy."

This art is good. Inks look like they were spread across the entire bullpen. Some pages were surely Sinnott. Backgrounds appear to be getting less populated with the recent increase in titles to produce, hey, sometimes it works to great effect; other times it looks unfinished. That is not to say there are no backgrounds, because there are plenty, here. Story-wise its as dull as dishwater. Also, some alliances between protagonists and antagonists are completely unbelievable. The script was better than the story by a smidgen. (3)

Yay, Falcon wasn't a d-bag this issue! Why exactly did Skull use the paralyzing gas on Vegas, instead of the "kill everything like an insect" gas? It's not really a sleeper robot if people are inside running it, is it? What was Red's plan with Cap? He told him to enter the robot, then when he did, he beat the crap out of everyone.

I found it hilarious when Cap was sneaking around the Sleeper very carefully, then at the first sign of Hydra agents he just forgets everything about stealth and literally flips a guy over and sounds every alarm.

"We have completed the fourth and final Sleeper robot! Each is more powerful than the last! Each less destructible than the next! Our plans are unstoppable now!"

"Good, good. But hear me out. What if, and I'm not naming any names, but what if the glorious Reich is reduced to a single hopelessly ineffective idiot who manages to get four unbeatable world-killing robots destroyed?"

"Alright *fine*. One more then! And we'll even put it in the middle of the U.S.! Surely no one could mess *that* up!"

All I could think while the Skull was saying how his sleeper robots kept getting beaten was the king of Swamp Castle and the number of castles he had to build to get one that didn't sink into the swamp.

For a bunch of robots that were supposedly designed to secure the future of the Fourth Reich or the Red Numbskull's vision of Earth, they sure went down easy. At this point, naming those robots "sleepers" are quite appropriate: you can defeat them in your sleep.

2 stars. About the only reason this arc existed, in my opinion, was to demonstrate how bad an idea the bullpen thought Femme Force was.

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